Crochetbug https://crochetbug.com/ Oh, what a tangled web we weave! Mon, 16 Nov 2020 05:27:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/crochetbug.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Soccer-ball-flower.jpeg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Crochetbug https://crochetbug.com/ 32 32 164691383 It all starts with a chain https://crochetbug.com/it-all-starts-with-a-chain-3/ https://crochetbug.com/it-all-starts-with-a-chain-3/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2020 05:27:33 +0000 https://crochetbug.com/?p=34655 In crochet, it’s easy to know where to begin. As my mentor, Edith Proctor, taught me: it all starts with a chain. But where to end a crochet project is vastly more complicated. One of the best examples of this is Tracy Pipinich’s Groovyghan design. I had been inspired to make the project because I […]

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]]> https://crochetbug.com/it-all-starts-with-a-chain-3/feed/ 5 34655 Working past a crochet impasse https://crochetbug.com/working-past-a-crochet-impasse/ Fri, 13 Nov 2020 02:19:18 +0000 https://crochetbug.com/?p=34643 With winter just around the corner, I have been working diligently to finish a granny square cardigan so that I can experience the joy of wearing it while the warmth it provides matches the cold of the outside, but the last couple of days I reached a crochet impasse of sorts. While the sleeves of […]

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]]> 34643 A gazillion color changes done, a gazillion more to go https://crochetbug.com/a-gazillion-color-changes-done-a-gazillion-more-to-go/ https://crochetbug.com/a-gazillion-color-changes-done-a-gazillion-more-to-go/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2020 23:53:51 +0000 https://crochetbug.com/?p=34631 Inspired by a cold snap in late October that seemed to have sent summer packing, I have been working on a granny square cardigan every moment that I have. The future sweater has at least a gazillion color changes, which, in turn, means it has at least two gazillion ends to weave in, and the […]

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]]> https://crochetbug.com/a-gazillion-color-changes-done-a-gazillion-more-to-go/feed/ 2 34631 The pieces of a boho granny square cardigan https://crochetbug.com/the-pieces-of-a-boho-granny-square-cardigan/ https://crochetbug.com/the-pieces-of-a-boho-granny-square-cardigan/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2020 23:38:35 +0000 https://crochetbug.com/?p=34601 Until I came across the pattern for this boho granny square cardigan, I didn’t know that I needed one so badly. But now that I’ve seen it, and now that sweater weather is upon me, I have to have it—now! But as with anything, the foundation of which is a multicolor granny square, now doesn’t […]

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]]> https://crochetbug.com/the-pieces-of-a-boho-granny-square-cardigan/feed/ 2 34601 The joy of making a multicolor granny square cardigan https://crochetbug.com/the-joy-of-making-a-multicolor-granny-square-cardigan/ Fri, 06 Nov 2020 02:31:27 +0000 https://crochetbug.com/?p=34585 After I finished my last blog post, I continued working on the sixteen-round granny square that forms the central motif of the back of the multicolor granny square cardigan I am making. I had already laid out the colors, and I decided that despite the fact there was no daylight left in the day, I […]

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]]> 34585 A Peter Max inspired palette for a granny square cardigan https://crochetbug.com/a-peter-max-inspired-palette-for-a-granny-square-cardigan/ https://crochetbug.com/a-peter-max-inspired-palette-for-a-granny-square-cardigan/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2020 02:24:53 +0000 https://crochetbug.com/?p=34571 With the five crochet sugar skull yarn bombs in the rear view mirror, I woke up this morning wondering “what next?” As I searched my closet for just the right outer garment to put between me and the increasingly crisp fall air, I decided that a Peter Max inspired granny square cardigan I had been […]

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]]> https://crochetbug.com/a-peter-max-inspired-palette-for-a-granny-square-cardigan/feed/ 2 34571 Four crochet sugar skulls all in a row https://crochetbug.com/four-crochet-sugar-skulls-all-in-a-row/ https://crochetbug.com/four-crochet-sugar-skulls-all-in-a-row/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2020 03:18:07 +0000 https://crochetbug.com/?p=34562 Before I got out of bed this morning, the days had already been getting shorter. Then the hour that was taken from the world last spring was restores in the middle of the night while I slept I awoke very rested but with less time to finish the two crochet sugar skulls I was working […]

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]]> 34551 An October snowpocalypse in the Near North Valley! https://crochetbug.com/an-october-snowpocalypse-in-the-near-north-valley/ https://crochetbug.com/an-october-snowpocalypse-in-the-near-north-valley/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2020 22:28:45 +0000 https://crochetbug.com/?p=34540 Just three days ago it was a balmy 76ยบ F, and I was enjoying a breezy and pleasantly warm afternoon. Fast forward just 60 hours, and instead of balmy breezes, I was greeted by an October snowpocalypse in the Near North Valley: My dog, Clooney, loved it. He was delighted to have his nose to […]

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]]> https://crochetbug.com/an-october-snowpocalypse-in-the-near-north-valley/feed/ 2 34540 I get into a crochet groove https://crochetbug.com/i-get-into-a-crochet-groove/ https://crochetbug.com/i-get-into-a-crochet-groove/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2020 23:13:43 +0000 https://crochetbug.com/?p=34529 I have finally gotten into a crochet groove. It’s not that I don’t make any mistakes (I do), it’s not that everything goes right (it doesn’t), but whatever bumps I encounter along the way, I am now able to keep my eye on the prize—namely, finishing my four front burner crochet projects in a timely […]

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]]> 34501 Learning from my crochet mistakes https://crochetbug.com/learning-from-my-crochet-mistakes/ Tue, 20 Oct 2020 22:51:18 +0000 https://crochetbug.com/?p=34488 It is great to be able to work with a crochet wind at your back, or if not a crochet wind, then a good stiff crochet breeze, but sometimes you find yourself crocheting into a headwind, and if you’re like me, you find yourself making a few crochet mistakes. Depending on how egregious those mistakes […]

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]]> 34488 So many crochet skeletons and skulls; so little time! https://crochetbug.com/so-many-crochet-skeletons-and-skulls-so-little-time/ https://crochetbug.com/so-many-crochet-skeletons-and-skulls-so-little-time/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2020 02:45:32 +0000 https://crochetbug.com/?p=34477 With Halloween just thirteen days away, and the Day of the Dead right after that, there is a lot of crochet yet to be done, not the least of which are two crochet skeletons I would like to have in the mail by Friday. What this means is I have a lot of work to […]

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]]> https://crochetbug.com/so-many-crochet-skeletons-and-skulls-so-little-time/feed/ 1 34477 Two more crochet sugar skulls https://crochetbug.com/two-more-crochet-sugar-skulls/ https://crochetbug.com/two-more-crochet-sugar-skulls/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2020 03:42:20 +0000 https://crochetbug.com/?p=34465 Long ago, when I was much younger than I am now, I stumbled onto a job working at what was then the Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery in Davis, California. The job entailed answering the phone, taking messages, filing papers, preparing mailings, and popping open bottle after bottle of champagne when a new exhibit was installed. It ended […]

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]]> https://crochetbug.com/two-more-crochet-sugar-skulls/feed/ 1 34465 The crochet eyes have it! https://crochetbug.com/the-crochet-eyes-have-it/ https://crochetbug.com/the-crochet-eyes-have-it/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2020 23:49:53 +0000 https://crochetbug.com/?p=34453 When I pressed publish on my last blog post, I was in a hurry to get my dog walked before it got dark, and to do that, I had to set aside the mummy head I had been working on. It was almost all done, it just needed two crochet eyes, a few more rounds […]

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